{"id":27151,"date":"2016-09-25T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2016-09-25T05:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lifes-rich-tapestry\/"},"modified":"2016-09-25T12:04:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T05:04:11","slug":"lifes-rich-tapestry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lifes-rich-tapestry\/","title":{"rendered":"Life\u2019s rich tapestry"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nEmbroidery queen Laura Lees moved from fashion to furniture. She tells Alice Fisher what inspires herLaura Lees\u2019 career started with a schoolgirl error. \u201cI didn\u2019t read my college prospectus properly so I applied for constructed textiles thinking it would be sculpture or something \u2013 it was actually knitting, weaving and tapestry.\u201d Luckily the course at Dundee\u2019s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design worked out. \u201cTurns out tapestry and embroidery are my thing. The needle is my pen and it lets me tell my stories.\u201dAfter college, she moved from her home town of Corstorphine to London in 1997 and ended up working behind the bar at the Bricklayer\u2019s Arms in Hoxton. Back then it was the local for fashion folk such as Giles Deacon and Katie Grand. After she embroidered a shirt for Deacon to show him what she could do, her notoriety spread among London\u2019s young designers. Continue reading…
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